So when people have said 'hate is a helluva drug' what it really means is when you see people like JKR being a bigot, or some Karen losing her shit on trans people existing
Their hate is PASSIONATE, and it's like...someone really into sports. And their frenzy, their passion is quite real.
But
they have no skin in the game. What they do, what they call for in their bigotries doesn't really impact them.
So they can play their game like it's life or death. And IT IS LIFE OR DEATH, just not ...for them.
They could turn this buffet of time they have this interest in being part of drama
into something good.
And some do, even though it's for fucked reasons, or covert narcissism ~ Lineham, King of the Lesbians, engaged in the pro choice Irish abortion fight.
But such people need a forever war, and bigotry supplies that.
David Gerrold said that the people who hate us can afford to take time off. It's a game to them. A hobby. But for us it's life and death, and we don't get to take breaks. That's their weapon, exhaustion. To survive we have to find ways to recharge.
See also: all the J6 protestors who thought they could just go home the day after attempting to overthrow the government without any consequences to them.
With Rowling in particular it feels like the trans issue started as a passive bias that wasn't stronger in her or more important to her than any other at the time, but it was how she responds to negative and positive feedback that shaped her single-minded obsession today.
"Anyone who agrees with me is correct, anyone who disagrees is wrong and mean."
Also she's just a tremendously spiteful person, which really came through in her writing. I also heard she called Lolita "a tragic love story." Was that recently?
I got a thread ready if it is topical.
Okay so I googled it and its from an interview in the year 2000. So not topical, maybe she's even changed or developed her opinion.
But yeah, probably not.
Not everyone who thinks Lolita is a tragic love story is a pedophile, but every single pedophile thinks Lolita is a tragic love story.
having the control of others is the key to the passion, “I get to decide who is heard, who lives and who dies “
bathroom panic is “if you don’t like it don’t go out in public”
drag panic is “if you don’t like it don’t go out in public”
it’s being the voice people listen to
crime podcasts same
